Athletics money
Spending per athlete
Athletics expenses divided by unduplicated varsity athletes — the single number that says how much a department has behind each player.
$46,494
#1 · Fairleigh Dickinson University, Florham
Division III · Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom · Madison, NJ
$8,872
Median
of 403 schools, Division III
5.2×
Top vs median
how far the leader sits above the middle
$22,178
10th place
the cut for a top-ten list
Top 15
Every school, Division III
#1 · Fairleigh Dickinson University, Florhamevery school
The spread across 403 schools; the median is $8,872.
How it is measured
Expenses include what football and basketball spend, so a big-football school reads high for every athlete on campus.
Related
The full list · top 100
| # | School | Expenses per athlete | Expenses | Athletes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fairleigh Dickinson University, Florham Division III · Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom · Madison, NJ | $46,494 | $17M | 365 | |
| 2 | Gordon College Division III · Conference of New England · Wenham, MA | $39,910 | $3.1M | 77 | |
| 3 | Randolph College Division III · Old Dominion Athletic Conf. · Lynchburg, VA | $38,973 | $2.5M | 65 | |
| 4 | Colorado College Division III · Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference · Colorado Springs, CO | $35,577 | $13M | 356 | |
| 5 | University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Division III · Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference · Stevens Point, WI | $25,949 | $5.4M | 210 | |
| 6 | Johns Hopkins University Division III · Centennial Conference · Baltimore, MD | $24,840 | $16M | 641 | |
| 7 | Bowdoin College Division III · New England Small College Athletic Conference · Brunswick, ME | $24,707 | $16M | 637 | |
| 8 | Schreiner University Division III · American Southwest Conference · Kerrville, TX | $23,688 | $9.3M | 394 | |
| 9 | Christopher Newport University Division III · Coast-To-Coast Athletic Conference · Newport News, VA | $23,570 | $13M | 566 | |
| 10 | Emory University Division III · University Athletic Association · Atlanta, GA | $22,178 | $9.3M | 421 | |
| 11 | Clarkson University Division III · Liberty League · Potsdam, NY | $21,456 | $8.5M | 397 | |
| 12 | New York University Division III · University Athletic Association · New York, NY | $21,381 | $11M | 496 | |
| 13 | Cornell College Division III · Midwest Conference · Mt. Vernon, IA | $21,377 | $3.3M | 153 | |
| 14 | Washington University in St. Louis Division III · University Athletic Association · St. Louis, MO | $20,559 | $11M | 519 | |
| 15 | Rochester Institute of Technology Division III · Liberty League · Rochester, NY | $20,499 | $13M | 640 | |
| 16 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Division III · Liberty League · Troy, NY | $20,400 | $14M | 666 | |
| 17 | University of Hartford Division III · Conference of New England · West Hartford, CT | $20,209 | $6.9M | 341 | |
| 18 | Brandeis University Division III · University Athletic Association · Waltham, MA | $19,862 | $5.7M | 287 | |
| 19 | Wellesley College Division III · New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference · Wellesley, MA | $18,888 | $5.2M | 273 | |
| 20 | Berry College Division III · Southern Athletic Association · Mount Berry, GA | $18,728 | $9.6M | 510 | |
| 21 | Union College (New York) Division III · Liberty League · Schenectady, NY | $18,486 | $10M | 556 | |
| 22 | Montclair State University Division III · New Jersey Athletic Conference · Montclair, NJ | $18,380 | $10M | 542 | |
| 23 | Williams College Division III · New England Small College Athletic Conference · Williamstown, MA | $17,703 | $12M | 700 | |
| 24 | Amherst College Division III · New England Small College Athletic Conference · Amherst, MA | $17,472 | $11M | 622 | |
| 25 | Colby College Division III · New England Small College Athletic Conference · Waterville, ME | $17,291 | $12M | 693 | |
| 26 | Babson College Division III · New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference · Babson Park, MA | $16,545 | $7.8M | 473 | |
| 27 | St. Lawrence University Division III · Liberty League · Canton, NY | $16,451 | $13M | 782 | |
| 28 | University of Massachusetts Boston Division III · Little East Conference · Boston, MA | $16,415 | $6.1M | 374 | |
| 29 | Hamilton College Division III · New England Small College Athletic Conference · Clinton, NY | $16,323 | $11M | 690 | |
| 30 | William Paterson University of New Jersey Division III · New Jersey Athletic Conference · Wayne, NJ | $16,034 | $3.6M | 227 | |
| 31 | Stockton University Division III · New Jersey Athletic Conference · Galloway, NJ | $15,992 | $6.7M | 417 | |
| 32 | Whitman College Division III · Northwest Conference · Walla Walla, WA | $15,854 | $4.3M | 274 | |
| 33 | Macalester College Division III · Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference · St. Paul, MN | $15,408 | $6.5M | 420 | |
| 34 | University of California, Santa Cruz Division III · Coast-To-Coast Athletic Conference · Santa Cruz, CA | $15,217 | $4.7M | 312 | |
| 35 | Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, Newark Division III · New Jersey Athletic Conference · Newark, NJ | $15,161 | $3.6M | 238 | |
| 36 | Trinity College (Connecticut) Division III · New England Small College Athletic Conference · Hartford, CT | $15,107 | $11M | 741 | |
| 37 | Denison University Division III · North Coast Athletic Conference · Granville, OH | $15,051 | $9.7M | 642 | |
| 38 | Hobart and William Smith Colleges Division III · Liberty League · Geneva, NY | $14,912 | $11M | 734 | |
| 39 | Wesleyan University (Connecticut) Division III · New England Small College Athletic Conference · Middletown, CT | $14,759 | $11M | 745 | |
| 40 | Emerson College Division III · New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference · Boston, MA | $14,552 | $3.2M | 222 | |
| 41 | University of Chicago Division III · University Athletic Association · Chicago, IL | $14,535 | $8.4M | 578 | |
| 42 | University of Rochester Division III · University Athletic Association · Rochester, NY | $14,306 | $8.3M | 579 | |
| 43 | University of the South Division III · Southern Athletic Association · Sewanee, TN | $14,282 | $5.8M | 407 | |
| 44 | Bates College Division III · New England Small College Athletic Conference · Lewiston, ME | $14,187 | $10M | 725 | |
| 45 | Earlham College Division III · Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference · Richmond, IN | $14,078 | $3.6M | 258 | |
| 46 | Tufts University Division III · New England Small College Athletic Conference · Medford, MA | $13,856 | $13M | 919 | |
| 47 | Stevens Institute of Technology Division III · Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom · Hoboken, NJ | $13,747 | $7.5M | 548 | |
| 48 | Rhodes College Division III · Southern Athletic Association · Memphis, TN | $13,684 | $6.7M | 491 | |
| 49 | Vassar College Division III · Liberty League · Poughkeepsie, NY | $13,629 | $6.2M | 453 | |
| 50 | Pacific Lutheran University Division III · Northwest Conference · Tacoma, WA | $13,615 | $5.3M | 391 | |
| 51 | Carnegie Mellon University Division III · University Athletic Association · Pittsburgh, PA | $13,536 | $6.5M | 478 | |
| 52 | Pratt Institute Division III · Atlantic East Conference · Brooklyn, NY | $13,521 | $2M | 148 | |
| 53 | California Institute of Technology Division III · Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conf. · Pasadena, CA | $13,513 | $3.6M | 263 | |
| 54 | Rowan University Division III · New Jersey Athletic Conference · Glassboro, NJ | $13,434 | $6.6M | 495 | |
| 55 | Pomona-Pitzer Colleges Division III · Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conf. · Claremont, CA | $13,328 | $7.2M | 542 | |
| 56 | LeTourneau University Division III · Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference · Longview, TX | $13,312 | $3.3M | 247 | |
| 57 | University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Division III · American Southwest Conference · Belton, TX | $13,292 | $6.6M | 499 | |
| 58 | Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Division III · Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference · North Adams, MA | $13,229 | $2.8M | 212 | |
| 59 | Trinity University (Texas) Division III · Southern Athletic Association · San Antonio, TX | $13,189 | $8.4M | 635 | |
| 60 | Washington and Lee University Division III · Old Dominion Athletic Conf. · Lexington, VA | $13,116 | $7.7M | 588 | |
| 61 | Lewis & Clark College Division III · Northwest Conference · Portland, OR | $13,060 | $5.5M | 421 | |
| 62 | Southwestern University (Texas) Division III · Southern Athletic Association · Georgetown, TX | $13,038 | $6.2M | 476 | |
| 63 | University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth Division III · Little East Conference · Dartmouth, MA | $13,024 | $5.4M | 414 | |
| 64 | Oberlin College Division III · North Coast Athletic Conference · Oberlin, OH | $12,918 | $5.1M | 395 | |
| 65 | University of Redlands Division III · Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conf. · Redlands, CA | $12,893 | $7.2M | 561 | |
| 66 | Gettysburg College Division III · Centennial Conference · Gettysburg, PA | $12,880 | $7.8M | 605 | |
| 67 | Swarthmore College Division III · Centennial Conference · Swarthmore, PA | $12,866 | $5.6M | 438 | |
| 68 | Huntingdon College Division III · Collegiate Conference of the South · Montgomery, AL | $12,853 | $7.2M | 563 | |
| 69 | Nazareth University Division III · Empire 8 · Rochester, NY | $12,803 | $6.2M | 481 | |
| 70 | East Texas Baptist University Division III · American Southwest Conference · Marshall, TX | $12,533 | $5.6M | 448 | |
| 71 | Gallaudet University Division III · United East Conference · Washington, DC | $12,517 | $2.9M | 235 | |
| 72 | Buffalo State, State University of New York Division III · State University of New York Athletic Conference · Buffalo, NY | $12,462 | $5.7M | 454 | |
| 73 | Plattsburgh State University of New York Division III · State University of New York Athletic Conference · Plattsburgh, NY | $12,422 | $4.7M | 376 | |
| 74 | Ramapo College Division III · New Jersey Athletic Conference · Mahwah, NJ | $12,361 | $3.8M | 307 | |
| 75 | Webster University Division III · St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference · St. Louis, MO | $12,274 | $3.1M | 250 | |
| 76 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division III · New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference · Cambridge, MA | $12,200 | $9.7M | 799 | |
| 77 | Eastern Connecticut State University Division III · Little East Conference · Willimantic, CT | $12,082 | $4.6M | 377 | |
| 78 | Alverno College Division III · Coast-To-Coast Athletic Conference · Milwaukee, WI | $12,022 | $601k | 50 | |
| 79 | Wheaton College (Illinois) Division III · College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin · Wheaton, IL | $11,952 | $6M | 502 | |
| 80 | Occidental College Division III · Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conf. · Los Angeles, CA | $11,944 | $4.5M | 374 | |
| 81 | Kean University Division III · New Jersey Athletic Conference · Union, NJ | $11,939 | $6M | 499 | |
| 82 | State University of New York Polytechnic Institute Division III · Empire 8 · Utica, NY | $11,747 | $2.5M | 211 | |
| 83 | Suffolk University Division III · Conference of New England · Boston, MA | $11,722 | $4.1M | 353 | |
| 84 | State University of New York at Cortland Division III · State University of New York Athletic Conference · Cortland, NY | $11,607 | $6.9M | 597 | |
| 85 | Maine Maritime Academy Division III · North Atlantic Conference · Castine, ME | $11,594 | $2.8M | 242 | |
| 86 | Skidmore College Division III · Liberty League · Saratoga Springs, NY | $11,542 | $5M | 435 | |
| 87 | Franklin & Marshall College Division III · Centennial Conference · Lancaster, PA | $11,486 | $7.2M | 631 | |
| 88 | University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Division III · Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference · La Crosse, WI | $11,445 | $7.4M | 647 | |
| 89 | Principia College Division III · St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference · Elsah, IL | $11,406 | $1.9M | 163 | |
| 90 | Ithaca College Division III · Liberty League · Ithaca, NY | $11,377 | $8.2M | 724 | |
| 91 | Wheaton College (Massachusetts) Division III · New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference · Norton, MA | $11,376 | $4.5M | 398 | |
| 92 | Albertus Magnus College Division III · Great Northeast Athletic Conference · New Haven, CT | $11,323 | $3.1M | 274 | |
| 93 | Centenary College (Louisiana) Division III · Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference · Shreveport, LA | $11,308 | $4M | 355 | |
| 94 | Aurora University Division III · Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference · Aurora, IL | $11,287 | $6.2M | 553 | |
| 95 | Augsburg University Division III · Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference · Minneapolis, MN | $11,211 | $4.7M | 417 | |
| 96 | Piedmont University Division III · Collegiate Conference of the South · Demorest, GA | $11,087 | $4.8M | 431 | |
| 97 | University of Saint Joseph (Connecticut) Division III · Great Northeast Athletic Conference · West Hartford, CT | $11,071 | $3.4M | 308 | |
| 98 | St. Mary's College of Maryland Division III · United East Conference · St. Mary's City, MD | $11,062 | $5M | 455 | |
| 99 | University of Mary Washington Division III · Coast-To-Coast Athletic Conference · Fredericksburg, VA | $11,048 | $5.5M | 495 | |
| 100 | U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Division III · Skyline Conference · Kings Point, NY | $10,972 | $4.8M | 435 |
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